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Mustech.net Offers Current Music Education And Music Technology News Throug
2007-10-04 17:25:00
I thought it was time to remind/tell about and announce to the readers of our weblog some of the awesome RSS feeds and NEWS features that are a part of mustech.net.  I know that you love our articles, posts and podcasts but there is so much more!  If you look down the left sidebar of mustech.net, you will find the latest News and Headlines about Music Education and Music Technology .  These are custom feeds that I have either designed or aggregated from thousands of news sources.  They include: Asides: News and Announcements that I find particularly interesting, timely or useful.  Recent Comments: The latest from people our sites who are linking to mustech.net or commenting Music Education in the News: Aggregated from over 4000 News sources!  The latest, most current news related to music and education on the web! Music Technology in the News: Aggregated from over 4000 News sources! The latest, most current news related to music an...
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Music Advocacy; Is It Just A Waste Of Our Time?
2007-10-04 00:30:00
Our we wasting a time with music advocacy and the current state of music education?  I posted a comment on Travis Weller?s site:  Composing Like Mad on his article entitled ?At 3:15 p.m., class is just beginning?? .  Jim Plamondon makes the argument and comments that ?people increasingly see music education as a bad investment, relatively speaking? and they might be right.?   He further states (within the context of his comment) that ?the effort currently being expended on music education advocacy is wasted?? In fairness to Jim, he has been working on a new type of keyboard that allows you to enter music notes in pattern based way that allows for an easier transfer of ?finger memory? to different keys when running scales and playing chords (not unlike guitarists and the patterns on strings) and offers his own solution(s) as to how to get a better ?return on our investment? as educators.   I have to read more about what he i...
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Awesome Screencast Recording Software Available For Free: Camstudio
2007-10-02 07:06:00
Camstudio has just updated their screen and audio recording software this past month.  If you are looking for software to record your computer screen and create tutorials for computer software; this software is amazing.  You can find out more about it here. If you are looking for great free video streaming software such as this, there is no need to look any further.  CamStudio is easy to use and produces a great final product.  This software could easily be integrated into any technology curriculum.  A special thanks to Nick and the folks at CamStudio for making such a fine product available for free. From CamStudio: CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) Here are just a few ways you can use this software: You can use it to create demonstration video...
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Raising A Ruckus! 3 Million Free Music Tracks For College Students
2007-09-28 18:09:00
Ruckus has made available all of the music tracks of their online service free to all college students providing they have a valid .edu account.  As of this year they have made agreements with all of their music labels to allow their music to be freely available to all college students in the U.S.  Upon graduating, the students can optionally choose to continue their service with Ruckus for a fee. Although it is HEAVILY advertisement laden, it does function as stated and is easy to use once you get attuned to their software interface and downloadable player.  If you are looking for a free solution and are not a college student consider signing on to SPIRAL FROG.         ;      &nbs p; ***************************************** *******  Press Release: HERNDON, Va., Sept. 5, 2007 ? Ruckus Network, Inc., provider of the only ad-supported, free and legal di...
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Mustech.net Welcomes Travis J. Weller To The Blogosphere!
2007-09-27 15:26:00
Travis Well er has started his own blog and calls it ?Composing Like Mad?.  Travis has been an active participant at mustech.net and has been featured on mustech.net as a guest blogger. If you?ve read any of Travis? comments here you know he writes well and is a ?deep? thinker.  He took up the challenge from our post ?Music Education Blogging: A Challenge!? and has come out ?guns a?blazing!?.   He has written a number of posts already and will be focusing on music education and wind composition. Please visit Composing Like Mad today and consider adding his blog to your site and blogrolls.  If you have a chance drop him a line, I?m sure he would appreciate it!         ;      &nbs p;      P.S. I?ll make any of you future music education and technology bloggers a deal? If you want to blog, I?ll help you get started!  Send me an email or comment on any of our posts a...
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The Importance Of Going Places, Public Relations And Getting Feedback
2007-09-26 22:28:00
On Monday we took the Grove City College Marching Wolverine Band to one of the many festivals that we attend each year.  This was not a festival that we have attended in the past.  Typically, the band heads south from GCC and attends many of the bigger Pittsburgh area festivals and marching shows.  On Monday, we headed east to the Allegheny-Clarion Valley school district. It was great to arrive at Allegheny-Clarion High school and see the rural school setting.  It?s nestled in a valley between and among the many hills of the area.   The football field laid un-surrounded by fences, open and directly in front of the school.   As a matter of fact there weren?t any bleachers.  But, there were hundreds of people who brought their lawn chairs and sprawled out over every inch of the low rise hill on the home side of the field. There were a number of high school bands at the festival that ranged in size from jus...
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Looking For Office Freeware From A Corporate Giant? IBM Presents: Lotus Sym
2007-09-21 07:01:00
Fresh off the press: IBM announces ?killer?office software for free.  It includes Word Processing, Presentation and Spreadsheet applications.  Free for all; individual, educational and business.  With a name like IBM, I wonder what this will do to the price of MS Office products in the future? Find Lotus Symphony Here! TO COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE or VIEW OTHER COMMENTS, USE THE COMMENT LINK BELOW ~ JOIN OUR GLOBAL CONVERSATION TODAY! VISIT MUSTECH.NET TODAY- Don't miss a beat!  Tell all your friends about us!Feeds and Destinations: Articles, Podcasts, Comments, Other Music News, ArchivesMUSicTECHnology.net (mustech.net) is licensed under a Creative Commons License  COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE/READ COMMENTS: CLICK IT!
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Vic Firth Percussion: Setting The Example Of How A Music Industry Manufactu
2007-09-21 05:57:00
Of all the great music industry sites that are available on the web, very few can compare to what Vic Firth offers in the way of educating those who use their products (and for that matter -those that use their competitor?s products as well!).  If you are a budding percussionist or a professional, Vic Firth offers free educational materials that will make you better.   Sure they want you to buy their products, but they want you to be able to use them right as well!  Vic Firth offers a ?second to none? array of free materials to be used by students, performers and educators alike.  I?ve used their free materials for years in my percussion methods course at the college and can tell you they are top rate, first class and indispensable. With regard to the realm of Snare Drum Studies, they offer an excellent guide to learning the 40 rudiments.  Norm Weinberg?s WebRhythms not only boast a progressive way to learn rhythms, but also include online metronome goa...
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How Do We Define The Success Of Our Educational Programs?
2007-09-19 22:41:00
The following was a collaborative effort and appeared in the program of the 12th Annual Mercer Mustang Band Show on Saturday, September 8, 2007.  The article was written by Travis J. Weller (Band Director, Mercer High School) and Michelle Morris (Assistant Director, Mercer High School). Travis and Michelle wrote about a number of extremely relevant and timely questions, especially with regard to arts in the schools.  I was literally taken aback when I saw something as bold and thought provoking as the contents of this article emblazoned on the front two pages of their band program for the show.   This was a great way to reach the hundreds if not 1000+ people that were at the show.  I was talking with Travis last year at a music conference about that very idea and it was great to see it in action.  I think there is a little room in every program that we put out for our programs for advocacy items like this (not everyone has ...
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Crazy Cool! Make Your Own Custom Flash Slideshows With Animoto
2007-09-19 04:40:00
I just learned about this software about 30 minutes ago while reading Pete Whitfields?s Blog.  I have to admit it?s cool, easy and pretty amazing software.  You can make 30 second video/slideshow clips and share them with your friends or you can pay for unlimited full length videos at $30 U.S. a year!   You can even share these with your friends and post them on MySpace and FaceBook accounts.  Here is a video that I made in 10 minutes of the Grove City College Marching Wolverine band at a night game: [Sorry you have to visit mustech.net to see this as it won't show in RSS] Not too bad! Try it for yourself at http://animoto.com          ;      TO COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE or VIEW OTHER COMMENTS, USE THE COMMENT LINK BELOW ~ JOIN OUR GLOBAL CONVERSATION TODAY! VISIT MUSTECH.NET TODAY- Don't miss a beat!  Tell all your friends about us!Feeds and Destinations: Articles, Podcasts,...
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Spiral Frog: Ad-supported Music Comes Of Age, An In-depth Review
2007-09-18 06:51:00
Spiral Frog provides an ?almost free? online music service?  The registration was quick, the download for the manager took 7 seconds, the active X install took 14 seconds, all the music you could ever want to listen to? PRICELESS -err?. AD-SUPPORTED.   Since it officially opened for business yesterday, Spiral Frog has become the new internet ?buzz? and latest rage.  You can tell it has become popular because their current server speeds are less than ?stellar? due to the large amounts of Internet traffic that is now being directed to them.  Navigation of their site has been slow lately? After registering for free and logging-on , I noticed that I had 29 days left to ????  After clicking on the link, I found that in order to keep my membership active I will have to ?answer a few easy questions? every 30 days to keep my membership.  This amounts to a hassle in my book and I guess I?...
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Running My Marching Band Rehearsal With Bluetooth!
2007-09-17 03:36:00
It had to happen?Bluetooth meets Marching Band !  Over the summer, I went a little gadget crazy and purchased a Motorola DC800 stereo bluetooth gateway and a NaviPlay stereo bluetooth adapter.  When you clicked on the links, you probably said ?Why on earth did you spend $300 on those contraptions to beat up on the marching field?? Here?s the thing- I spent a grand total of $60 for BOTH! I have been keeping my eye on them ever since they made their debut in Radio Shack last year (at full price).  Being a technology realist (no, really?) I knew that the world of bluetooth was still at least a generation away from making it to the mainstream.  After all, look around and all you see are those little bluetooth earpieces- hardly scratching the surface of it?s potential.  With the advent of the A2DP stereo bluetooth profile, there are a whole host of great handsfree stereo options on the way. Now for the application: I use the setup to ?run? my marching band rehears...
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Bloggers: A New Way To Get A Rush Of Blog Traffic Through Syndication Or Ju
2007-09-17 02:11:00
  I?ve found a great new way to syndicate your blog and help drive targeted traffic to your site.  You can see it in action on the right side of my site http://www.mustech.net. It?s called Blog Rush.  Similiar to Sphere, which you can open by clicking on the Sphere link at the top of any my posts, it provides related information about topics that would be of interest to you readers.  Like Blogmad and BlogExplosion it builds upon the concept of link exchanges.  Blog Rush will list the name of your post and create a clickable link back to your site in a nice looking widget. I am very excited about this free possibility as it builds upon people who link from your site or use your Blog Rush I.D. ? the earlier you get this up and running the more effective it will be for you as it will target more traffic on those that join from your link.  It?s one of the easiest and potentially most effective tools I?ve seen in a while for syndicating your information...
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Green Portable Media Lovers Take Note: Hand-cranked Media Players Now Shipp
2007-09-13 15:48:00
Wow, here is an electronic gadget that I would have never thought? The wind-up, portable, super duper, EMP-MX71 Eco Media Player: This little guy has 2GB (or 1 GB, reports vary) of Ram built in and a slot for a SD card.  It can play mp3, mp4, avi, wmv and mpg files.  1 minute of cranking provides 40 minutes of operational time and power (you can charge your cell phone from it)!  It includes a FM Radio (able to record FM broadcasts), stereo in line jack, voice recorder, photo viewer and USB port for quick charging and transferring files. For a ?first of it?s kind?, it looks loaded and no doubt will be pretty high on the ?cool meter?.  It is a little pricey at $300+ U.S. dollars? the cost of a high end iPod and these just went on sale on September 10th so you can exptect a price drop in the coming months.  However, if you can get your hands on one now I?m sure you?ll be the talk until the next cool thing comes along.  It will be inter...
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Sharing Photos With Flickr And Our Marching Band
2007-09-09 05:42:00
I?ve been using Flickr  quite a bit lately.  I?ve decided to use it as the core online photo service for distributing our marching band photos to everyone who wants them.  Flickr allows you to upload 100 megabytes of photos per month and share them with the world for free.  In addition, you can do amazing things with Flickr like share your photos through email or an RSS feed.  It?s the ease of use of Flickr that was the deciding factor in choosing them. Here is an example of an embeded Flickr Stream of our band show at Carnegie Mellon today: [CANNOT SHOW FLASH BASED FLICKR RSS SHOW IN RSS CLICK THE LINK TO SEE IT!] There are a number of great Wordpress plugins for Flickr as well.  Check out this great articlefrom Mashable about 50+ Media related Wordpress plugins.  If you haven?t looked at Flickr and are a photo fanatic, I would encourage you to check it out today! TO COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE or VIEW OTHER COMMENTS, USE THE C...
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Alternate Music Ensembles, Reaching The Other 80% : Podcast E10
2007-09-07 17:19:00
Alternate Music Ensemble s, Reaching The Other 80% : Podcast E10 PLAY THIS LIVE FROM OUR RSS FEED! Original Air Date: 9/06/2007 Podcasting Site: http://mustech.podomatic.com Website: http://www.mustech.net Podcasters: Joseph Pisano and Darren Morton Episode 10?s Show: The non-traditional musicianThe role of today?s music teacherGarage BandsWhat is good music?Classroom education for non-musiciansAlternate EnsemblesWhat do today?s students listen to?Reaching the ?other? 80% of studentsMath Metal?Balding podcasters? [RSS] Subscribe to our Podcasts with Feedburner[RSS] Subscribe to  our Podcasts with Pod-O-Matic Music provided with permission by Jason Davis:http://jasondavismusic.com TO COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE or VIEW OTHER COMMENTS, USE THE COMMENT LINK BELOW ~ JOIN OUR GLOBAL CONVERSATION TODAY! VISIT MUSTECH.NET TODAY- Don't miss a beat!  Tell all your friends about us!Feeds and Destinations: Articles, Podcasts, Comments, Other Music News, ArchivesM...
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Brad Volek On Being The GCC Band President
2007-09-06 22:07:00
I asked our current marching band president, Brad Volek, to write a little bit about his experience this year as the college band president.  One thing you will notice while reading this article is that Brad doesn?t let any ?grass grow under his feet??   -J. Pisano ************************** ?It?s the middle of May at the end of my sophomore year at Grove City College. I walk into band rehearsal a little nervous this day because the band is electing officers for next year and I?m in the running for president. The election results are read at the end of rehearsal and I have been elected. I?m ecstatic at the thought of this opportunity. Then it hits me ? I?m band president, I?m in charge of 200 people?..now what? The first thing I had to do was to figure out what exactly the Grove City College Band President actually does. The band president is charged with coming up with the schedule for all four days of band camp which include a band-wide afte...
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Unbelievably Crazy Music Series #4: Bottled Music, In-line Skater
2007-09-02 06:27:00
Unbelievably Crazy Music Video Series #4: Bottled Music In-line Skating Source: http://youtube.com/ Post Date: 9/02/2007 by J. Pisano     Archives: See all our series Viewing Rating: G- For Everyone! Comment: This guy is unbelievable!  He is using in-line skates and has arranged a series of bottles with different amounts of water in them to make different pitches when the strikers attached to his in-line skates hit them as he goes by!  He sets the tempo via his speed and a ?piano scroll? type music reality show begins. It?s Mozart?s Symphony #40, only produced in a way I?m sure Mozart NEVER imagined.  This truly is amazing! CANNOT SHOW VIDEO IN RSS: CLICK HERE TO SEE IT! Copyright Information: All videos posted in our series are believed to be either listed under a CC, GNU license or are in the public domain.  If you are the owner of this video and would like to see it removed from our series, please email us. TO COMMENT ON THIS ART...
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Music Education Blogging: A Challenge!
2007-09-01 16:48:00
   The great folks at the Music Educator?s Network have issued a challenge: In light of this I invite every reader to join me in my challenge to myself: I WILL BLOG! I will write at least one post per month. With each school year comes new ideas, new challenges, and a new ?to do? list. Won?t you join me in harnessing the power of a blogging community of music educators? I KNOW this is a great idea.  If nothing else, writing clarifies thought and expands your thinking pattern(s).  Blogging will do that and so much more for you and your students.  Since I started blogging a year ago, I have had almost 100,000 unique hits at mustech.net and over 200 hundred discussion points with people on this blog.  I?ve grown tremendously from those conversations and it has sparked further curiosity? In my opinion it?s a win-win for everyone involved in the process.  Yes, many times people do not agree with me about a topic but isn?t that the point of an...
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Mustech.net On Your Cell Phone- Mustech.net Goes Mobile!
2007-08-31 23:47:00
      Great news!  Mustech.net has gone mobile!  Thanks to a plugin by Andy Moore, mustech.net is now easily readable on your mobile phones and gadgets.  Additionally,  you may want to get the Opera mini-browser for an even better experience!  The mobile web layout is pretty basic, but it includes links to each post and any pictures and other links I?ve included in the article (which may or may not display properly when you click them).  The Opera mini-browser does a bang up job with my site.  You can try it out here: www.operamini.com/demo Tell all your friends and ?dial up the www?!          ;        TO COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE or VIEW OTHER COMMENTS, USE THE COMMENT LINK BELOW ~ JOIN OUR GLOBAL CONVERSATION TODAY! VISIT MUSTECH.NET TODAY- Don't miss a beat!  Tell all your friends about us!Feeds and Destinations: Articles, Podcasts, Comments, O...
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Guitar Tuner With Chord Finder And A Pitch Pipe: Qwik Tune GP1
2007-08-30 01:43:00
When I was browsing the contents of the Pittsburgh?s most famous big-little music store this summer, Pianos -n- Stuff, I came across this little gem of a tuner: It?s called the Qwik Tune GP1 Guitar Professor and is an electronic guitar tuner, pitch pipe and chord finder all in one.   You can find these at most online music stores for under $15.00 US. I?ve used it extensively and it?s very handy and accurate.  Not only does it include references to standard major and minor chords but also 7ths and 9ths -over 250 chords in all. If you?re a part-time guitar player like me and are constantly finding yourself without your chord book, this little tuner is pretty awesome and you can keep it?s small enough to keep anywhere. Looking for an online tuner?  Check out this article at mustech.net!         ;      &nbs p;      &nb sp;     TO COMMENT ON THIS ARTIC...
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Fanfares And Academic Regalia
2007-08-28 00:15:00
This article is from MUSicTECHnology.net  ~Copyright 2007, J. Pisano/mustech.net Today?s opening convocation , at Grove City College, started off with a FANFARE?trumpet fanfare that is (did you notice the bold print...).   Every year we start the opening convocation with a 7 trumpet fanfare that announces the procession of the academics from across the quad. When the procession arrives at the chapel, the trumpets lead the procession down the center aisle and announce the beginning of the ceremony from the front of the chancel area. As we were progressing today, I thought it might be fun to explore the meanings about academic regalia worn at all of these types of ceremonies in today's post.  All official academic ceremonies such as graduations will have the teachers/professors all ?fussied up? in some type of robe/garment.  The visitors love to see the regalia and those that have to be in the pagentry&n...
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Grove City College: First Day Back At The Grove?
2007-08-28 00:14:00
This article is from MUSicTECHnology.net  ~Copyright 2007, J. Pisano/mustech.net Coll ege officially started today and I can say it went pretty well.  I don?t dread the start of school, I actually look forward to it.  The students are the lifeblood of any school and with out them, well?it?s pretty lifeless.  I think as teachers we should be excited about school starting, after-all isn?t that why we chose to be teachers?  All jobs/careers have their tensions, headaches, and unnecessary ?hoops?? at least we get some time to ?recoup?! In classes today, we had the normal first day of class ?rigaramol?: add/drops, early and lates, books, etc.  It?s an exciting time for the students, especially the freshmen.  It?s kind of fun to watch the freshmen try to figure out who is an upperclassmen or the ?where? and ?what? of their first few days.  Very quickly they assimilate into the ?know?. Wow, has class equipment changed since I was an un...
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Marching Band: Kennywood Park Or Bust!
2007-08-26 16:48:00
This article is from MUSicTECHnology.net  ~Copyright 2007, J. Pisano/mustech.net   Marching Band has it?s perks?   Today we take the band to Kennywood Park , a well known amusement park in Pittsburgh, PA.  This year the Mighty Grove City Wolverines are marching 171 strong, including 30 fronts.  Although many big state universities have bands almost double this size, as far as we know, there are no colleges under 3000 that march as many as we do.  Our band varies in size from year to year from 160 to over 200. We march 6 across with the percussion in the middle.  Instrumentally we effectively have two full bands separated by the percussion.  This allows for a consistent sound no matter where the listener may be.  The GCC wolverines are led by 6 herald trumpets sporting the GCC colors and insignia off their bells.  This makes for great e?spirit de corp and adds to the ?pomp?. Kennywood park is particularly fun&nbs...
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Free Music Score Library: International Music Score Library
2007-08-23 20:35:00
This article is from MUSicTECHnology.net  ~Copyright 2007, J. Pisano/mustech.net   Known in short as IMSLP, the International Music Score Library contains over 11,000 musical scores and annotations!  This website is formatted as a WIKI page. A WIKI page is a collaborative informational website that stores information in an easily retrievable database.  Perhaps the best known WIKI is Wikipedia. As music is an internationally neutral format, this WIKI is already translateable into over a dozen languages.  Also, as with any WIKI, IMSLP has it?s own contributor portal and allows for users to edit, discuss and add to its growing database. You may browse scores via Composer name, Composer Period, Work Genre and Work period. IMSLP contains works for composers whose works are largely in the public domain. For instance, a quick search for Claude Debussyreveals 51 works that are easily accessible and downloadable from this site.  Scores...
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Connect With Music, FREE Interdisciplinary Lesson Plans For Math, Science A
2007-08-20 22:35:00
This article is from MusTech.net ~Copyright 2007 MusTech.net and J. Pisano Middle School Educators take note:   Our good friend James Frankel along with master music educator?s  Tom Rudolph and Stef Langol have produced an invaluable music resource with the launching of http://www.connectwithmusic.org. &nb sp;This website is supported by both NAMM and TI:ME.  Connect With Music  includes 30 FREE interdisciplinary plans that utilize multimedia, music and technology to aid in the instruction of Language Arts, Math ematics and Science at the middle school level. Again, this tremendous resource is free and both delightful and insightful! Here is a list of it?s project goals from their site: 1. Creation of a Multimedia-based Interdisciplinary lesson plans integrating music into three core subject areas at the secondary level: language arts/reading, mathematics, and science. Each subject area will have ten lesson plans that will integrate music into the subjec...
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Help Make Music Education Part Of The National Debate
2007-08-19 22:42:00
This article is from MusTech.net ~Copyright 2007 MusTech.net and J. Pisano   MENC has posted this interesting idea/concept in the dusty hollows of their technology bulletin board/discussion forum: Posted by MENC Staff on August 09, 2007 at 16:19:25: Help Make Music Education Part of the National Debate on the Future of America in ?08! MENC is asking all 2008 presidential candidates to tell us what they would do to support music education if elected. The September 17 CNN/YouTube Republican debate gives you a unique opportunity to participate in this effort. Create a video asking the candidates how they would support school music ? and you could see it broadcast and answered on live TV! YouTube encourages original submissions! Use details from your own experience in the classroom or in training, from participating in the World?s Largest Concert, the National Anthem Project, or All-State Festivals, from the many studies about the benefits of music education (www.menc.org/facts) ?...
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Just In Time For School, Google Offers StarOffice Suite? Free!
2007-08-17 15:39:00
This article is from MusTech.net ~Copyright 2007 MusTech.net and J. Pisano Here?s a timely update, Google has just announced that it is including Sun?s Star Office Productivity Suite for Free !  This suite is similar to Microsoft Office and Open Office (another great freeware product).  Up until this point StarOffice could only be had for $69.95. Google is offering this suite as part of it?s ?Google Pack? Software.  This software can be found here.  It includes other great freeware as well: Google Earth Norton Security Scan Google Desktop Firefox Adobe Reader Skype Spyware Doctor Google Toolbar Picasa (A must, in my opinion) Google Photos Screensaver Google Talk Star Office To find out more about StarOffice go here.  TO COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE or VIEW OTHER COMMENTS, USE THE COMMENT LINK BELOW ~ JOIN OUR GLOBAL CONVERSATION TODAY! VISIT MUSTECH.NET TODAY- Don't miss a beat!  Tell all your friends about us!Feeds and Destinations: Articles, ...
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Get Ready?Mustech.net 2007-2008!
2007-08-14 02:16:00
This article is from MusTech.net ~Copyright 2007 MusTech.net and J. Pisano Get Ready ?Mustech.net 2007-2008 ! Well, it?s been a long summer?  I have not posted as much as I would have liked but I?m gearing up for a great school year!  I will be changing the look of this site in the very near future to better suite the tremendous amount of information contained within the confines of MUSicTECHnology.net. I intend to go to a three column format that allows for more information to appear on the pages at the same time. I will also begin posting on a regularly updated schedule come Sept. 1st and plan on going back to 3-4 posts per week. We have reached well over 50,000 readers in the last 8 months and I hope to double that number before the end of the school year! I will be doing a lot of speaking around the United States this year, at various conferences, and I will keep you up to date in the case that you might like to attend one of the lectures/conferences....
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Educating The Non-Traditional Musician In The Classrooms, Podcast E9
2007-07-25 00:05:00
This article is from MusTech.net ~Copyright 2007 MusTech.net and J. Pisano Educating The Non-Traditional Musician In The Classrooms, Podcast E9 New: You can now ...play this Podcast directly from our RSS Feed(s)! Original Air Date: 7/24/2007 Podcasting Site: http://mustech.podomatic.com Website: http://www.mustech.net Podcasters:Joseph Pisano and Darren MortonGuest Podcaster: Owen Bradley Episode 9?s Show: The non-traditional musicianGarage BandsClassroom education for non-musiciansAlternate EnsemblesToo many extra-curricular activitiesMentos? [RSS] Subscribe to our Podcasts with Feedburner[RSS] Subscribe to  our Podcasts with Pod-O-Matic Music provided with permission by Jason Davis:http://jasondavismusic.com TO COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE or VIEW OTHER COMMENTS, USE THE COMMENT LINK BELOW ~ JOIN OUR GLOBAL CONVERSATION TODAY! VISIT MUSTECH.NET TODAY- Don't miss a beat!  Tell all your friends about us!Feeds and Destinations: Articles, Podcasts, Comments, ...
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